What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.